Unexpected weight gain in resident Antarctic Terns Sterna vittata during the austral winter

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Author: PARMELEE, D. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Arthur Harbor; Austral; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; The Antarctic; Tristan; Antarc*; Sterna vittata
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1988.tb01001.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.1988.tb01001.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1988.tb01001.x

Antarctic Terns Sterna oittata (Fig. 1) may display two very different migratory behaviours. According to Cooper (1976), the terns breeding on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic fly thousands of kilometers to the coasts of Africa where they moult. Antarctic Terns that inhabit the more southern a...